Macaron recipe: Adorable "I whale-ly love you!" whale macarons

What better way to say I love you than with these adorable macarons! These are the perfect little desserts for special occasions like valentine's day! 

Macarons are tricky to make but if you follow the step by step instructions you should have perfect macarons to share with your loved ones! 

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Pancakes

For our father's 70th birthday, we recreated our family's all-time-favourite breakfast, 

PANCAKES! 

This was a 10" chocolate cake

 The berries were handmade out of fondant

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Giraffe Cake

We had an order to do a giraffe themed cake and ta-dah! Here it is: 

MAKING THE GIRAFFE 

We made the giraffe out of gumpaste about 2 days before and once it was rock solid, we covered it in yellow fondant (Wilton Buttercup yellow x Red Man yellow). After which, we added the little details!

If you need to, use something to help support the structure  while you work on it. 

The birthday boy specially requested for the giraffe to be holding a volley ball and hand ball. 

MAKING THE CAKE 

This was a blueberry cake with blueberry frosting. To get the recipe for the cake, click here. 

The bottom layer was a 10" square cake, and the top was 8". We covered both in yellow fondant and used brown fondant to resemble the giraffe's spots. To finish it off, we added a ribbon around both tiers. 

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Blueberry Cake

Who doesn't love a good blueberry cake? It's soft and moist, with the refreshing taste of juicy blueberries. 

Ingredients: 

Unsalted butter (1/2 cup)

Buttermilk (1 cup)

Cake flour (2 cups)

White sugar (1/2 cup) 

Brown sugar (1/4 cup)

2 eggs (or 3 small eggs)

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 teaspoons salt

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

2 cups fresh blueberries (or 1 tin of canned blueberries) 

Recipe:

1. Preheat your oven to 204 °C
2. Cream the sugar and butter until smooth
3. Mix in the buttermilk and eggs until combined
4. Combine all your dry ingredients in a separate bowl
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and carefully fold it in
6. Add in your blueberries and mix until they are incorporated
7. Bake for about 19 - 20 mins 
8. Enjoy

TwinnieFoods Tips:

• Coat the fresh blueberries with just a little bit of flour to ensure that the berries don't sink to the bottom of the cake. 
• This recipe makes an 8" round cake.
• If you are using a deeper cake tin, bake the cake for a longer time. 
• Use 3/4 cup of white sugar if you like the cake to be sweet. 

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